• LiamBox@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Dude can’t even bother skinning her and sell her organs for Nvidia stocks

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    6 hours ago

    What’s the angle here? He made a ton of money for his shareholders. Including by lobbying for allowing sales to China as well as closing his eyes while different firms were smuggling GPUs. Why would the board get rid of him? This whole thing looks really unusual.

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      I think the smuggling and the general desire to continue exporting to China is the key here, and that Alice Huang being a spy is bullshit. I think she’s a chip smuggler, something that the Chinese state has been trying to curtail, because it wants to develop its own domestic chip industry that’s no longer depended on Western chip manufacturers. That’s why millions of NVIDIA chips are currently quarantined at Hong Kong ports.

      I think this is a fight between two factions of big capital, one that wants to constrain China and another that wants to continue profiting from China.

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        I think this is a fight between two factions of big capital, one that wants to constrain China and another that wants to continue profiting from China.

        Do you think that fight is being expressed in this NVIDIA-internal hullabaloo about investigating and potentially Huang? I feel like the capital that wants to constrain China wouldn’t be invested in NVIDIA and would do it through the state apparatus.

        • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
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          It is doing it through state apparatus, for example through “anonymous” CIA sources baselessly accusing Alice of espionage and exposing their affair. And they’re doing it behind Trump’s back, because Trump & Jensen have had a chummy relationship.

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      For sleeping with an executive that reports directly to him. Comments I’d take with a grain of salt implied she might have attained her position by sleeping with Jensen.

      You aren’t wrong though. It’d be stupid to fire him over the smuggling thing, as long as the DOJ isn’t pressing charges either.

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      lobbying for allowing sales to China as well as closing his eyes while different firms were smuggling GPUs

      most of the epstein class wants to choke off china like they’re doing to cuba atm and huang is very inconvenient to the rn because of this – it’s not an accident that he suddenly can’t be in the room w trump and jinping because he’s been summoned to testify.

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    I’m calling it, this is a psyop. Bu i’m willing to see it through insead of being in conplete denial.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
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      In what sense is he a traitor? I think you’re approaching the situation from the wrong angle. What he is is a billionaire butting heads with other billionaires, and none of them are patriots.

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    CEOs are figureheads and faces that don’t matter that much ultimately. But the damage done by the face of the company compromising it to this degree is immeasurable.

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      Jensen literally founded the company, and helped design the original GPU. He made some incredibly critical long-term decisions, like pushing CUDA and some architectural features, even when they wouldn’t pay out for years.

      Many report directly to him.

      …By all accounts, he is rather critical for Nvidia. I don’t mean to glaze him, but TBH some generic CEO would run Nvidia to the ground in no time.

    • Scratch@sh.itjust.works
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      Um, no?

      CEOs get high-level direction from the board of directors. “We want to see increased sales in India.” Could be an example.

      It is up to the CEO to act on that, passing directions down through the C-Suite towards managers and regular employees.

      Their compensation is usually very high, you think a figurehead is getting $50m a year to do nothing and have sex with employees?